I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

He threw me off the building into the abyss with his words. Oh, the ocean was so deep, but his words were so shallow!

Exercise daily to keep an active life.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.

How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

It's kind of hard to balance school and work sometimes. But sometimes, like, if I'm going to the White House and I'm in there doing a tour and stuff, that's like school.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.